<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Vaze:
As a relatively newcomer to these boards, to me there is no difference between a slew of posts about "the COE", someone making "either/or" posts, or someone posting news links. As an objective bystander with no axe to grind, it appears a little disingenuous to talk about any one poster being "divisive" when it seems to be the "regulars" of this site doing the bickering - no doubt I've offended someone with this post, then again, there are no cliques here, right? </font>
I would like to point out that there was a brief time where I and a couple of others started a mock war with a group of FlyerTalkers (the COE) that was intended to be a humorous mirroring of the actions in Iraq at the time.
It got out of hand, and when people started to complain that we were detracting from the board, we immediately curtailed our actions and tried to stop what we realized was irritating other members. It is this kind of response that I'm talking about.
This is why I say that it's not that doc was supposed to know intrinsically or in advance that his behavior was disruptive, but realize that the effect of it was disruptive when a number of people began to complain.